About Bologna process in short
Key political documents of the Bologna
process
Berlin
Communiqué
of
Ministers (19.09.2003)
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Reports reflecting Bologna process:
Results of Bologna - relevant seminars
and conferences:
New international legal tools for
recognition
See also:
Calendar of events between Prague
and Berlin
Council of Europe activities related to
the Bologna process
EU activities and support to the
Bologna process
Bologna-Berlin website
About Bologna process in short
Bologna process is the
process of creation of the European Higher Education Area.
The process started on June 19, 1999 when 29 European Ministers responsible for
higher education signed the
Bologna declaration
in which they undertake to create a
European Higher Education Area.
The creation of the
European Higher Education Area should be completed by 2010.
The main objectives of the Bologna declaration are to
increase the mobility and employability of European higher education
graduates thus ensuring competitiveness of European higher
education on the world scale.
Fully respecting the richness of the European cultural
diversity and thus also the diversity of higher education systems,
Bologna declaration seeks to articulate the European higher education
around two main cycles. Employability of graduates should be ensured
already after the first cycle.
Mobility of graduates around the whole European Higher
Education Area is only possible if recognition of degrees earned is
ensured. This is supposed to be done through increasing
transparency of educational systems and trust among the educational
systems that in turn will be based upon quality assurance of programmes
and institutions.
Issuing of of the Joint European Diploma Supplement to
all graduates and usage of a credit system (ECTS or compatible) are seen
as the main tools for transparency. While the European Credit transfer
System (ECTS) in the past was used only for credit transfer after
spending a study period at anothe rinstitution, it should now become a
credit accumulation system. Besides credit accumulation in regular
higher education programmes, such system should also provide
possibilities to gain credits within informal and non-formal education,
thus takinhg on board lifelong learning.
Bologna declaration aims to increase mobility of students
and staff accross the European Higher Education Area. Achieving this
goal will also require identification and solution of a number of social
issues.
Addition of European dimension to programmes is another
tool for reaching the Bologna goals. Establishing joint programmes and offereing degrees by institutions from different countries seems to
support reaching severeal goals of Bologna declaration and will
therefore be further developed.
The ministers have decided to meet every two years to
"- reconfirm the objectives,
- analyze the results and
- set guidelines for the next period".
The first ministerial meeting after Bologna took place
in Prague on May 17, 2001
The next ministerial meeting is scheduled on September 18 -19, 2003 in Berlin
(see Bologna-Berlin website).
Report of
the intergovernmental Bologna
follow-up group
to Berlin ministerial meeting
rapporteur Prof. Pavel Zgaga,
Sep 2003
Report of
the intergovernmental Bologna
follow-up group
to Prague ministerial meeting
rapporteur Pedro Lurtie, May 2001
Trends and Learning Structures
in Higher
Education III
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report reflecting Bologna process between the
Ministerial meetings in Prague in 2001 and Berlin, 2003
by
Sybille Reichert and Christian Tauch
Trends
and Learning Structures in Higher Education II
report reflecting changes in the first 2 years of the
process -
before Prague Ministerial meeting of 2001,
by Guy Haug and Christian Tauch
Trends
and Learning Structures in Higher Education I
pre-Bologna report by Guy Haug and Jette Kirstein, 1999
Other
reports and surveys
Qualification structures in European Higher
Education
report by S.Adam, March 2003
Tertiary short cycle education in Europe
EURASHE report, 2003
Tuning Educational structures in Europe
Tuning project report by H. Gonzales and R. Wagenaar
Survey on
the development of Master
degrees
and Joint degrees in Europe
report by C.Tauch and A.Rauhvargers, Sep 2002
Recognition
issues in the Bologna process
ENIC/NARIC working group, May 2001
Student participation in the governance of
higher education in Europe
Council of Europe survey, Annika Persson, Jun 2003
Country reports
on implementation
of Bologna declaration
ACE mainpage